Directed by Robert Wise • 1971 • United States
Starring Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson

One of the great paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, Robert Wise’s adaptation of the novel by Michael Crichton is a chillingly plausible vision of mass contagion and the scientific quest to stop a plague. ...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1973 • Germany
Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben

WORLD ON A WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ph...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1973 • Germany
Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben

WORLD ON A WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ph...

Directed by Douglas Trumbull • 1983 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher

Having created special effects for such science-fiction milestones as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, and BLADE RUNNER, Douglas Trumbull brought his visionary...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1983 • Canada
Starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” As he struggles to unearth the ...

Directed by Irwin Winkler • 1995 • United States
Starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller

One of the first major films to explore the dark reaches of cyberspace, this hit thriller plays like classic Hitchcock rebooted for the AOL age. Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a freel...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1998 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento

Abel Ferrara’s slick, sexy adaptation of a story by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson journeys deep into the world of corporate espionage, as shady businessmen Fox (Christopher Walken) and X ...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1999 • Canada
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm

Director David Cronenberg puts a fresh spin on his signature themes in one of his wildest and most thrilling creations, in many ways a spiritual sequel to VIDEODROME. In the near future, game designer ...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2002 • France
Starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny

“No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don’t understand.” So observes Connie Nielsen in Olivier Assayas’s hallucinatory, globe-spanning DEMONLOVER, a postmodern neonoir thriller and med...

Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2006 • Japan
Starring Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Furuya, Koichi Yamadera

The final feature directed by anime legend Satoshi Kon is a dizzying, dazzling tour through the unconscious that takes the genre to new heights of giddy imagination. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who has ...

Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman • 2021 • United States, Rwanda
Starring Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire

Codirected by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, this visually wondrous sci-fi punk musical takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped colt...